HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 9386, 7 May 1894, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[By Electric Teleg k apii. —Co r yrig ut. ]

[Special to Press Association]

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(Received. Mh.yf.lß9i, at 10.50 a.m.) , Fitt* lliti defaulting secretary of the North London Building Society, has been sentenced to five ycal's’ imprisonment for embezzling £38,000. Mr GeddoS) of Now Sofitn Wales, has formed a company to test the best means of obtaining a uniform chilling process. A steamer is being fitted up which will be able to treat a thousand quarters of beef. Mr Geddos returns to Australia in July. The Napier loan has now boon fully subscribed. The Meat Committee will regulate the prices every week. (Received May 7, 1894, at 10.60 a m-.) Tallow is Unchanged. The English wheat market is dull, the Continental inactive, and the American declining. A cargo of South Australian wheat has been sold at 23s fid. Butter is unchanged. New Zealand cheese: White, 54s to 58s; colored, 54s to 595. THE HAGUE, May 6. The Parliamentary Commission which was sot up to consider the matter, recommends the drainage of tho Zuydor Zee at a cost of sixteen millions and the reclamation of half a million acres. HOME, May 6. Signor Taulongo, ex-governor of the Bank of Rome, explained during tho trial that tho former Ministers, with a view to raise the price of Government stock, compelled the bank to sanction a procedure involving largo losses. Premier Crispi, speaking on tho foreign policy of Italy, said that humanitarian questions were gradually replacing national. Peace should be the supreme aid of international politics.